Statistics

Statistics of the Genocide

The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 was a truly traumatic and horrifying event. It was one of the most brutal acts of murder ever committed.

Over the course of 100 days from April 6 to July 16 1994, an estimated 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and some moderate Hutus were slaughtered in the Rwandan genocide.1 A recent report has estimated the number to be close to 2 million.2

During this period of terrible slaughter, more than 6 men, women and children were murdered every minute of every hour of every day. This brutally efficient killing was maintained for more than 3 months.3

There are between 300,000 to 400,000 survivors of the genocide.4

Between 250,000 and 500,000 women were raped during the 100 days of genocide.5 Up to 20,000 children were born to women as a result of rape.6

More than 67% of women who were raped in 1994 during the genocide were infected with HIV and AIDS.7 In many cases, this resulted from a systematic and planned use of rape by HIV+ men as a weapon of genocide.8

There are 10 times as many widows than widowers – almost 50,000 widows of the genocide.9

As of June 2013, there are currently 21,039 exceptionally vulnerable survivors receiving hardship allowance from FARG.10

75,000 of survivors were orphaned as a result of the genocide.11

Of those that survived the genocide over half the children stopped their schooling, because of poverty.12

As of 2007, 40,000 survivors were without shelter, many whose homes were destroyed in the genocide.13

Of AVEGA’s 25,000 members, nearly one-third (8,000) of widows have still not had gacaca judgments enforced as of August 2013.14

1 The UN estimate the number killed as 800,000. The Rwandan Government estimate is 1,071,000. RWANDA: No consensus on genocide death toll, Agence France-Presse, Apr 6, 2004 (quoted on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide)

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